Figure 5.

Burst termination and the interburst period: model (a) and whole-cell electrode recording from the SON of a hypothalamic slice (b). Note that the firing frequency remains steady until the end of the burst. The final spikes are succeeded first by a postburst DAP, which in turn is followed by a lengthy slow depolarization. The experimental trace has been low-pass filtered to remove membrane noise and to make the general trend more evident. Spikes have been trimmed for clarity.